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«Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.»
«In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.»
«Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die»
«This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.»
«Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.»
«Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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restlessness, scour, scoured, scouring, slaves, whips
«The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.»
«He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.»
«We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.»
«The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.»
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